Max Samter

Max Samter, German-born immunologist who conducted research that led him to realize that patients suffering from both asthma and nasal polyps were in danger of developing a life-threatening sensitivity to aspirin, a condition that came to be named Samter’s syndrome; for its fifth edition in 1995, his highly regarded 1965 textbook, Immunological Diseases, was retitled Samter’s Immunologic Diseases (b. March 3, 1908, Berlin, Ger.—d. Feb. 9, 1999, Evanston, Ill.).

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